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Activities
2. Publishing and Information Services
(1) Library and Data Reference Services
- ITU-AJ offers facilities for reading literature and research data on the
ITU and the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT) .
photo: Reading Center
- ITU-AJ also answers specific enquiries from the public regarding technical
matters, the ITU, the APT, and so on.
(2) Periodicals
- ITU-AJ issues monthly Japanese-language ITU Journal to spread information
relating to the ITU and the APT among relevant Japanese organizations.
This includes details of the activities of international organizations
and trends in international cooperation in the telecommunications field.
- Since its launch in 1989, New Breeze, ITU-AJ's quarterly English-language
magazine, has been publicizing Japanese telecommunications and broadcasting
policies, services, technologies, standardization activities and industry
trends. As a comprehensive publication, the aim of New Breeze is to provide
information on the Japanese situation to telecommunication and broadcasting
businesses and organizations overseas, as well as to English speakers in
Japan.
photo: ITU Journal, New Breeze
Other Publications
- Through the annually published World ICT Visual Data Book, ITU-AJ provides
timely information on the status of telecommunications in both developing
and developed countries. The book includes comprehensive tables of easily
compared international statistics. ITU-AJ publishes a bilingual Japanese-English
edition of the ITU Constitution and Convention, the Union's basic legal
instruments. It also publishes in Japanese a chronology of the ITU, which
makes clear its activities and Japan's participation, as well as several
other titles.
photo: Other Publications
(3) Sales of ITU and APT Publications
- ITU-AJ acts as an agent for the sales of ITU publications regarding the
ITU Constitution, Convention, Regulations and research reports, as well
as Recommendations of the ITU-T, ITU-R and ITU-D sectors and research reports
by ITU-D.
(4) Website
- In 1996, ITU-AJ opened a website that provides information on its activities,
in English as well as JapaneseDIn 2007 ITU-AJ added members-only webpages
which contain periodicals and the materials from workshops conducted by
ITU-AJ.
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